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Correspondences with Warburg, Tamar

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Exchange with Tamar Warburg about "The Face of God" and Theodicy (2002)

Dear Zeida, I am writing to you in a frenzy of excitement which has resulted from your lecture entitled “The Force of God’s Judgment in the Holocaust.” The lecture has definitely triggered off serious questions, the questions that I, just like everyone else, have regarding frankfurt vrs tzur, that since possible in Jewish history which must fall under the category of literal punishment for sins the Jews have involved in since time back. Reading this lecture was the most thrilling intellectual experience I have been involved in since I came back to Israel. I probably haven’t yet marked the response in the correct probable books, I am putting it down under the title “we ask the questions” “he just don’t understand Hashem.” Here my controversy is sparked within me. All the questions asked however I would like an answer for the greatest answer is, could this be answered if we are the Jewish people so involved in questioning all the time and not getting any answer to it and not getting settled within ourselves, if this still is the situation? We might continue to rebel – still never being able to get back to your point that the answer will not come expected. The involvement in questions is always a beautiful experience but involvement in questions that never get answered is depressing. To my point – all that we can accomplish nothing. It seems as though this stage of Jewish history has no meaning and nothing that stems from it will give us any objective base upon which to stand. You are not answered. You only see that you have a special job as a Jew – we see that. What then can be accomplished if you are not answered? We can’t believe that in a perpetual involvement in questions and never arriving at any answer is good for us. We must have some kind of answer or at least something to believe in. We can’t be satisfied that Hashem has special ways. We know that! But what does it mean for us to know this and for you to tell us this, which is impossible to find some signif…